Young rural lives: strategies beyond diversity.

摘要

This special issue draws together 10 papers focusing on the lives of young people in different rural environments and cultures. This editorial article discusses the papers and reports in relation to a set of strategies that may guide further development of rural youth studies. It is noted that a good deal of youth research has undertaken the important initial step of documenting the varied conditions of young people's lives. However, more integrated and conceptual understandings of rural youth canlook to identify generic dimensions and processes that shape their lives in rural cultures, economies, societies and spaces. A framework is proposed to assist in more explicitly theorizing the following: notion of 'young people'; the 'contexts' in whichyoung people live; and the 'negotiations' and multiple relations young people engage in while constructing dynamic (often creative and sometimes contested) understandings and experiences of their worlds.